Correspondence.

AN ERROR CORRECTED.

DEAR Doctor Fisher:

In the July number of the Journal, page 159, your printer does me an injustice, both in a literary sense and as a surgeon. I am not given to faultfinding, but in this instance I must ask you to make a correction.

The sentence reads: "Within a few hours a sharp attack of peritonitis followed, that threatened danger, and run temperature up to 103 and then subsided without serious injury."

Had dangerous symptoms followed the accident, I would have performed a laparotomy immediately. This would have been the only rational mode of dealing with the condition. The manuscript read as follows: "Within a few hours a sharp attack of peritonitis followed, that lasted five days, the temperature reached 103, and then subsided without serious injury." Truly yours.

W. E. GREEN.

Little Rock, August 6th 1891.

[The JOURNAL regrets the error very much and trusts such an occurrence may not take place again.-ED.

nomenon first becomes apparent after the addition of 25 parts of water, and increases in intensity until the proportions have reached 1:3200. Thereafter the degree of fluorescence remains stationary, even though dilution be carried to many million parts. Similar results are obtained with an alcoholic solution of Magdala red: These facts suggest that possibly the groups of molecules existing in the solid salt are only partially dissociated in the concentrated solution, but become more and more so with increasing dilution, until, when the fluorescence is no longer affected by further dilution, the dissociation is complete. Fluorscein and eosin in water have their fluorescence increased by heat, the effect of which would be to increase their solubility, whilst, on the other hand, an alcoholic solution of Magdala red, which is no less soluble in hot than in cold, has its fluorescent power diminished by being heated. Further, Magdala red, being more soluble in hot than in cold water, acquires fluorescent properties in a hot solution, although not observed in the cold.-American Druggist, July, 1891.

Does not the above phenomenon confirm the usefulness of attenuating drugs for the purpose of developing their power as medicinal agents, as taught by Hahnemann?

Gleanings.

THE Fluorescence of a Liquid, as ap

pears from recent investigations (Jour. Chem. Soc.), increases without limit as the dilution increases. A concentrated solution of the ammonium salt of fluorescein exhibits no fluorescence at all. The phe

Graduates of medicine taking a post-graduate course at the Southern College will be admitted to Clinics at the Johns Hopkins Hospital, probably the finest hospital in the U. S. if not in the World.

The Southern College is located within 5 minutes walk of four of the finest libraries in the country; the B. & O. and the Penna. R. Roads, and the Postoffice; and car lines passing the door, or on either side connect with every part of the City.

C. E. FISHER, M. D., EDITOR.

The JOURNAL invites contributions to its pages from Homœopathic physicians the world over.

All articles contributed as original matter must be contributed to it exclusively.

Reprints will be furnished at cost if request is made when matter is sent to the editor.

Early intelligence concerning local events of interest Bolicited.

As it is desired to make The JOURNAL thoroughly practical, brief articles are earnestly sought from all its readers.

Information relating to Medical Legislation and to the Public Institutions of Homœopathy especially desired.

faithful to our trust and persistent in pressing our claims, we will surely be given just recognition in due season.

The Lord helps those who help themselves! There must be no faltering anywhere, but with an honest determination to persevere in well-doing until Homœopathy is accorded her full and just deserts before the law, every member of the profession in Texas should rally to the standard so ably raised by Drs. West, Mercer and Mackenzie, and keep up the contest until the rights of Homoeopathy and the people are fully recognized by the Regents.

Editorial.

HOMEOPATHY IN THE UNIVERSITY.

THE IE first gun in the campaign for the admission of Homœopathy into the Medical Department of the University of Texas has been fired, and the contest of the new school for her just rights in the educational system of this great commonwealth has been fairly begun, by the preparation of a most excellent memorial on the subject and its presentation to the Board of Regents at their recent meeting at Galveston.

This memorial, prepared by Dr. W. M. Mercer, of Galveston, for the committee appointed at the last meeting of the State Society, is a remarkably clear and succinct presentation of the claims of Homœopathy in connection with the proposed Medical Department, and it is so courteous, dispassionate and so sound in its logic that it is certain to reflect credit upon its author and to carry weight and prove convincing with the people, if indeed it does not secure our rights with the Regents. It is a matter of regret with us that it was not received in time to appear in this issue of the Journal. It will be given our readers in the September issue, and that it will prove interesting reading to all is beyond question.

The commencement has been made and the struggle is on. Texas follows the example set her by Michigan, Iowa and Minnesota, and sooner or later Homœopathy will be taught alongside the therapeutics of the old school in the University of this State. The right will surely prevail in time, in this matter

STILL LEADING INTO AMBUSH.

THE "Sage of Albany" is nothing if not persist. ent, nothing if not indefatigable and nothing if not misguided in the matter of medical legislation as this question relates to medical education. When the American Institute at its Atlantic City meeting adopted the report of the special committee of eighteen appointed to consider the question of the reorganization of the committee on legislation, which report favored the continuance of the committee as at present composed, it endorsed the legislative views of the majority of that committee, Drs. Talbot, Orme and Dake, whom Dr. Paine would have dismissed from this committee in order that he might carry out his own peculiar views, and in so doing it almost as emphatically disapproved of the latter's plan of campaign as when it incontinently sat upon him at Waukesha, although this question was but indirectly before the house. Yet not a month has elapsed since the Institute adjourned before Dr. Paine is again flooding the country with one of his "just a few words" volumes upon the subject of medical legislation, urging upon us the three board plan of control which the Institute has so often rejected, as if it were anything else but a certain ambush for Homœopathy.

The JOURNAL is in receipt of one of these "short article" documents of about nineteen or twenty pages, and with it comes the suggestion from Dr. Paine that he will "now and then furnish items on this subject in the hope that you will give them to your readers without too great an intermixture of your own ideas."

When it is taken into consideration that Dr. Paine looks with the utmost favor upon the highest possible degree of governmental paternalism over the medical profession, while the JOURNAL looks upon officious and official meddling with the educated profession as unnecessary, un-American and and dangerous to Homœopathy in this country, as in Europe, the Sage's request that we publish his arguments favoring the State Examining Board scheme without an intermixture of our own ideas, is refreshing, to say the least; and without wishing to give offense to this well meaning but woefully misguided patriarch the JOURNAL must respectfully decline the proposition.

Though a wonderfully strong young plant, Homœopathy is yet in its infancy. Even in America, as we call the United States, we are but ten per cent. as strong, numerically, as is the old school profession. In a few States, only, are we able to hold our own against all comers; in nearly half we can make a very good fight, while in the remaining commonwealths we are glad to, be allowed simply to exist. No State in the Union has all the Homoopathic physicians it has room for, while in fourfifths or more there is an actual and growing demand for Homœopathic practitioners, Full fifty thousand more Homœopaths than are now practicing in the United States are needed to take the places of that number of old school blunderbusses—classing all but about twenty per cent. of their number in that cate. gory-and excellent openings, all over the country, await all the graduates the Homoeopathic colleges will put out in the next fifty years,

Not only is it important to Homœopathy itself that as little restriction as is safe shall be put upon us in the education of a great army of young men and women to supercede the horde of old school practitioners who all but monopolize the practice throughout the rural districts, but it is so important to the people at large that they should be spared the crudities and dangers of old school physic that their interests will be saved by allowing the greatest reasonable liberty in populating the Homœopathic profession. So far as Homoeopathy is concerned, then, unnecessary measures, calculated to be restrictive. are altogether undesirable, and in so far as the people's interests are concerned they are wrong.

The Examining Board plan, if made to operate in accordance with Dr. Paine's ideas, will certainly

prove restrictive and thus unnecessarily hamper us and retard our growth, to the manifest disadvantage of public interests and to the sacrifice of reasonable competition in medical practice. Homœopathy doesn't need the Examining Board. The American Institute has already placed the requirements of Homœopathic colleges at so high a standard that a good medical education is assured to all who erter them, and these requirements are sufficiently restrictive in themselves to hinder our numerical growth to a very considerable extent. Add to this high requirement and the long years of study now demanded by the red tape of the New York law, and Homoopathy's growth will be so retarded that the mission fields of the South and West will long remain unoccupied for want of men to fill them.

The Sage of Albany should come South; he should go West; he should see the field for himself as Homœopathy's pioneers see it. He should look beyond the shadows of New York's capitol before undertaking to dictate a plan for us to follow which is nothing more nor less than the enemy's ambush, or he should cease his suicidal support of Allopathic legislative measures and leave the solution of this important question to those who appreciate the magnitude of this country, the diversity of interest of different sections and the need for safely guarding Homœopathy's growth in the mission fields. He should confine his operations to his own State, if indeed it must be thus so afflicted, and permit other commonwealths and the National body to shape legislation in accord with American policies, Homœopathy's interests and the people's necessities. So long as he continues operations ont he line he is following, the JOURNAL cannot refrain from crying out almost in despair—God save Homœopathy from the Sage of Albany!

THE REGULATION ASS.

TWO events have transpired recently which go to

show that even in the far East the old school profession still contains the regulation ass who sees in Homœopathy and its affairs something at which to bray.

Both of these occurrences have relation to the International Congress held at Atlantic City. Both came from Philadelphia. Both probably came from one man. They are interesting as showing how

very intolerant some men who occupy high places in the Councils of the (medically) un-Godly can be, and how utterly ridiculous they can become when they but set themselves about it.

The first of these occurrences was a protest to the editor of the Philadelphia Inquirer against the very liberal reports which that paper gave daily of the Sessions of the Congress and the Institute. It was so supremely ridiculous as to call forth the following merited editorial rebuke in that great daily:

"THE HOMOEOPATHISTS.

Some of our good friends among the regular physicians seem a little disturbed at the amount of news we are giving the Homœopathic Congress in Atlantic City, and one of them writes us to know if we are the organ of Homœopathy.

The Inquirer is the organ of no creed, sect, party or society. It is a newspaper in every sense of the word. It gives space to the Atlantic City convention because it is news that is interesting to both the disciples of Hahnemann and the regular physicians also. The latter certainly want to know what their brethern are doing.

When the regular, or Allopathic, physicians have a congress in this vicinity we shall with equal pleasure pay attention to their proceedings.

The Inquirer is a newspaper for all."

With just as much reason might a Methodist ask if a paper is the organ of Presbyteriansism should it give comprehensive reports of a Presbytery, or viceversa, as for an Allopath to ask such a foolish question as this.

It is a matter of astonishment most profound that at this day such intolerance and bigotry should be found in any high-minded profession, and it certainly reflects no credit upon the body in which it is found if it prevails to any considerable extent.

The other occurrence to which we refer is a most

ridiculous editorial criticism of the late Congress, appearing in the Philadelphia Medical News, in which the grossest misrepresentation and wildest statements are arrogantly made by the editor of that journal, the whole branding him as a Mullhatton without rival in the medical profession. In the course of his four page lientery he charges that the Congress was but little else than a self-admiration society; that the discussion of the affairs of Homoopathy throughout the world, and not diseases and their cure, occupied the attention of the body; that

not a paper was read and not a discussion was held upon the diseases that cause about 99% of the deaths of the world, and a lot more such drivel.

All one needs to do in order to convict the Medical News man with being the greatest prevaricator and the most wilful slanderer in these United States, as well as the most bigoted and intolerant editor of the nineteenth century, is to go over the programme and daily reports of the sessions. No less than two hundred and twenty discussions were had upon fifty or more papers in Medicine and Surgery, covering almost the whole field of labor. True, Bergeons' reverse-end treatment of consumption, Koch's fiasco and Brown-Sequard's testicular juice did not come up for consideration to any alarming extent, nor did a few others of the delicacies of old school treatment, as the application of human urine as a cure for bee stings, as detailed in every issue of the News in which the criticism of the Congress occurs, for instance. But that the Congress gave ample consideration to the Homœopathic treatment and general management of many of the diseases met with in daily practice is a fact beyond dispute, and only a wilful perverter of the truth will assert to the contrary.

The work of the Congress was both scientific and practical. It was creditable to its school, satisfactory to those in attendance and galling in its success, no doubt, to the Medical News, if we may judge from the ridicule the editor would heap upon it.

Go to, with your Bergeon's Gas, your Brown-Sequard's testicular fad and your urine for bee stings! Homœopathy and her methods are a model of excellence as compared with them.

PULTE AND THE SOUTH.

THE following editorial leader appears in the Pulte Quarterly for August under the above caption :

By exact calculation 19.47 per cent. of the Alumni of Pulte Medical College are in active practice in the South, and from the general talk among the undergraduates last year it is very certain that this num ber will be increased in 1892.

"It is a fact so widely known as to need but bare mention here that no section in this country offers so many inducements to the Homœopathic medical

profession as that vast region appropriately called the New South. It is seldom that so general a field for profitable venture, an inducement in itself, is rendered the more attractive by the attitude of the Homoeopathic physicians therein, who stand ever ready to point out the way. There is plenty of room for all, and, as well, plenty of pioneer work for all, but it is a work that pays well on its investment."

"Much of the disagreeable work necessary in new fields has already been accomplished by those whose names are known and coupled with history and growth of Homœopathic medicine in the South. The good work of these pioneers bids fair to be pushed beyond the most sanguine expectations, and it is our proud privilege to note the number of young Pulte boys who have recently taken up the banner of Homœopathy in the South-the banner that many an old Pulte boy has labored for in years gone by, and who were found at the front in the recent contest there. The younger men have good examples to follow in those somewhat older veterans, who know the tricks and tactics of the enemy." "Pulte graduates have, so many of them, gone South, and have done well for themselves and for Homœopathy, that we want the alumni in other sections to know that in this field, as in others, Pulte is ever to the front in furnishing her quota of good and successful workers."

Every word of the foregoing is true to the letter and the SOUTHERN JOURNAL is delighted to find the Quarterly taking so active an interest in populating the South with qualified Homoeopathic graduates. Very much of the pioneer work of recent years in the Southern field has been done by alumni of Pulte, though graduates of other colleges, as well, have done a full share of mission labor, and the more physicians Pulte and all the other colleges, for that matter, can send us the better will these pioneers be supported. The South offers many good openings for the right kind of men and we are glad indeed to know that the college journals are taking up the matter and that we can hereafter count on their help in our efforts to populate the South Homœopathically. Let others follow the Quarterly's example and soon many of our waste places will be occupied.

Editorial Notes.

The Alabama Homœopaths will hold their next State meeting at Montgomery the second Tuesday in May, 1892.

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Dr. Frank Kraft has withdrawn from the Cleveland Homœopathic Hospital College, in which he held the chair of Materia Medica.

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Is this us? It is from the Houston, Texas, Daily Post of August 10. As a diagnostician what sort of a success is the Post? What say our readers?

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Dr. H. F. Fisher, Fort Worth, has been taking a tour of the Panhandle doing ophthalmological work. He reports a number of good openings up that way.

Drs. A. E. Meadow, J. H. Henry and A. M. Duffield form the legislative committee of the Alabama State Society for next year. Look out for squalls.

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Send the title of your paper for the Southern Association in early to Dr. LeFevre in order that the programme may not be delayed or your name and paper left off.

Dr. H. C. Kehoe has removed from Carlisle, Ky., to Mt. Sterling, Ky. This leaves Dr. M. Dills all alone in his glory at Carlisle and will make competion for Dr. J. A. Vansant at Mt. Sterling.

The San Antonio Sanitarium is the name of a beginning in the way of a private infirmary inaugurated by a staff of local physicians and surgeons composed of Drs. Joseph Jones, M. J. Bliem, G. G. Clifford and C. T. Braden.

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Dr. Brindisi, of Prospect, Ohio, is touring Texas, for a location and will pitch his tent either in Austin or San Antonio. There is plenty of room in either city for men of the Doctor's stamp. The JOURNAL will cordially welcome him to Texas.

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The editor of the SOUTHERN JOURNAL performed a laparotomy July 27th in San Antonio, successfully removing an ovarian cyst of forty-eight pounds weight from a lady of fifty-two years. A prompt